Agreed, the new interface on Android Firefox seems visually "simplified" but in terms of usability it's a step backward. Reminiscent of gnome shell in a way.

She'll plug the vacuum cleaner right into your rig when she's cleaning the basement.

That's what people *thought* he said. Now we know much more precisely what he said: "Let there be quark-gluon plasma -- for a bit".

Although I've never programmed in Rust, I'm interested in its advantages in terms of code security. Looking at the list of vulnerabilities in TFA, it seems at least 12 out of 21 are due to overflow or out-of-bounds errors that would have been prevented if Exim had been written in Rust. Please correct me if I'm wrong.

Great idea indeed. The only downside of this kind of positive incentivization to move away from bad behavior is that you're putting people that have already switched (or never owned a car in the first place) at a financial disadvantage. The unintended side effect of this kind of policy is that it motivates people to stick with undesirable behavior until you pay them to give it up. To avoid this you should also reward the people that already display the behavior you want to incentivize.

Your argument would make sense if scientific research was paid for by revenue publishers make from articles. But it isn't. And the peer review of these articles isn't either.

Then it would be hard to say it doesn't get metaphor :-) But seriously:

This sounds just like somebody in the seventies saying: "But if you present a photo of a dog to a computer and it responds with the word "dog", it's hard to say it doesn't understand what it's seeing."

Note to editor: normally limits are understood to be pushed outward, not inward.

If there were any...The list in TFS doesn't mention any backwards incompatibilities, just added features. Releasing a new minor version for it seems perfectly consistent with semantic versioning https://semver.org/ conventions to me.

The quote in the title is a glaring non-sequitur. They report a comparison between best and worst, not best and average. In a sample of 10 subjects, mind you. But hey, if you want to make a point, who needs the data?

I'm surprised to see concurrency or threading is not on the agenda. One thing that is really unmodern about emacs is how the UI sometimes freezes until some under-the-hood process is done...

I don't really have a clue, but since this is Slashdot I'll give you my 2 cents anyway. I think serverless computing means that you get to run stuff in the cloud, but without ever having to deal with the servers yourself. Not the physical machines obviously, but also not the virtual machines and the system environment necessary to run your code/app/database. In that sense it's different from normal server providers like AWS and Azure.

I tried but it doesn't help much. I quote from the page:

If slashdot is anywhere like it used to be this comment section is going to be fun!

That and Signal messaging still relies on centralized servers. Although you can create your own private Signal network, federation of servers is not currently possible, nor planned https://signal.org/blog/the-ec... . There may be good pragmatic reasons for that (as outlined in the blog), but as crippling as it may be, I think an open protocol standard and decentralized server infrastructure is a sine qua non for an e-mail successor.